Re: [PHP] Re: PHP in HTML code

On 17/03/10 18:59, Tommy Pham wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Rene Veerman<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> hmm.. seems easier to me to push a filetree of .php's with<?= through
>> the str_replace(), than it is to get all the<?= writers to comply
>> with your wishes, which may not apply to their situation ;-)
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:14 PM, tedd<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>> At 8:55 PM -0400 3/16/10, Adam Richardson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That said, I'm not taking exception with those who don't use the short
>>>> tag, only with those who say I shouldn't.
>>>
>>> Exception or not, it's still your choice and using short tags can cause
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> My view, why create problems when there is a solution? Forcing the issue is
>>> a bit like "I'm going to do it my way regardless!" I've traveled that path
>>> too many times in my life. Sometimes it's easier to take the path most
>>> traveled.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> ted
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>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phpmode.php
>
> "There are four different pairs of opening and closing tags which can
> be used in PHP. Two of those,<?php ?>  and<script language="php">
> </script>, are always available. The other two are short tags and ASP
> style tags, and can be turned on and off from the php.ini
> configuration file. As such, while some people find short tags and ASP
> style tags convenient, they are less portable, and generally not
> recommended. "

But the implication there is that they are *only* non-portable *because* they 
can be switched off - there's no other strong reason. Before anyone jumps in 
with XML / XHTML arguments again, those issues are fairly rare and very easily 
worked around. My projects tend to use XHTML doctype because it makes IE7/8 
behave more predictably without a <?xml ?> block, and I always use short tags 
for <?= because the alternative is so ugly! In the rare cases where I generate 
XML from a PHP script, there are workarounds for the <? problem.
I do tend to use <?php for blocks of code - so I guess I'm in the middle camp here.
I also write code to be hosted on dedicated systems that I have full control 
over, so php.ini settings are always in my control (so far...)